Improvement in cultivators



ABUSENGER. GULTIVATORS.,

No. 190,280. Patented. May 1, 1877.

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M m? W6-W D MPETERS, PHOIQLIYMOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D. C.

UN TED STATES PATENT Qr'taoa.

ANTHONY BUSENGER, OF MILL BROOK DEPOT, VIRGINIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CULTIVATORS.

Specification forming part'of Letters Patent No. l 90,280, dated May 1, 1877; application filed March 17, 1877.

' of Mill Brook Depot, in the county of Au gusta and State of Virginia, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Cultivators and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, refer,- ence being bad to the annexed drawings, mak ing a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a plan view of my cultivator, and Fig. 2 a side elevation of one of the cultivator-beams with shovel attached.

This invention relates to that class of cultivators wherein several detachable plows are connected together and provided with means for expanding their diverging rear ends; and, it consists in the construction and arrangement hereinafter particularly described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, A desighates the central plow-beam of my cultivator, which is provided with a standard, B, carrying a plow-point, U, and with plow-handles D connected by cross-piece E, which is supported by vertical post F. The tapering front end of this beam A is provided with a metal cap or buck-head, G, having a perforated draft-attaching front extension, g, and two rearwardly-extending hooks, g 9. By means of these hooks and the perforated extensions h of buckheads or caps H two other plow-beams, I J,

:are attached one on each side of said main plow-beam. Beam I is provided with stand- :ard 1 and plow 1 and beam J is provided with standard J and plow-point J Each of these side plow-beams has a pair of handles, K, connected, respectively, by cross-bars k "that are supported by posts or uprights K.

The converging diminished front ends of said ahandles set into eyes or loops L on the upper :sides of the respective beams, and the said up- ;rights K are slotted on top at 10 to receive the respective cross-bars k, a locking-pin, 70 being passed through each cleft upper end above the cross-bar. After withdrawing said pins k the said handles may be readily removed from their respective plows. Uprights K are hinged to their respective beams at 70 so as to fold down forward out of the way after the plow-handles have been removed, as stated.

The divergence of side beams I and J. is regulated by adj listing-plates M M, each of which has a series of perforations, m or m. One of said perforations, m, of plate M, is made to coincide with a perforation, m, of plate M. and said plates are then clamped to muin beam A by means of a bolt, N. Similar bolts N attach the outer ends of said adjustingplates to the said side beams near the'rear ends thereof. Said bolts N N also serve to secure to the under sides of said beams blocks 0, which are recessed in front at 0, so as to partly receive and brace the backs and sides of the plow-standards above described.

Said beams may be detached and used separately with their handles, standards, &c., as plows. The maih'beam may also be removed and the side ones used for straddling rows of corn. Harrow-points may be substituted for the plows. Additional beams may be attached, if desired. Various changes may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure its plow-beam out of theway, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

ANTHONY BUSENGER. Witnesses:

O. M. Uusume,

, T. D. WOODWARD. 

